The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-01-15

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WAsH1NeToK, JAN s, 1881.
From onr Regular Correspondent
After having INDUCED in its usua
Christmas vacation, Congress is a
work again. The President is almos
well of his rheumatism. Mrs. Cleve
land has begun holding semi-weekh
MONDAY receptions. There is an or
ganized fight against the confirmation
of reformer Benedict, the new Public
Printer. Unfounded rumors Of Oabi
net changes continue to float through
the air, and there is good deal o.
talk about an extra session.
The tariff question by no means re
ceiyed quietus in the recent vott
against discussing revenue bills, and
a number of plans are spoken of fol-
Egetting il up in Congress yet before
the close of the session. When Hon
S. s. Cox was asked what was now the
/ paramount question before Congress
he replied, "The tariff unqueBtionably
Never since ] have been in Congress
has the tariff question assumed such
great proportions" He thinks a ma,
! jority in the House would vote for q
reduction of the tax on sugar. The
reason for sugar Legislation is that it
is an element of life, absolutely indis,
pensible, almost MS much of a necessity
as bread itself. The amount of the
tax upon that article through the tariff
can easily be estimated by those who
choose TO figure on it.
Mr.. Cox will succeed Mr.. Hewitt on
the Ways and Means Committee, for
the remainder of the session, and it is
thought he intends to take an aggrcs-
sive part in trying to bring about n
reduction of the revenue this session.
1t is said he has an idea for bringing
about a compromise by which enough
votes can be had to at least take up
the consideration of the tariff question.
In the Senate, also, it is said Sena-
tor Vest will soon introduce a resOlu.
ton asking Congress to take some
step that will bring about the prom
ised reduction of the surplus. 1t is
understood that the President is seri-
ously urging the matter, and that
what both Senator Vest and Repre-
sentative Cox do will be done at his
suggestion. The President has said
that unless something was done he
would be compelled to call an extra
session of the Fiftieth Congress shortly
after the expiration of this. The I'M
preston grows daily that one may be
called, and in that event the appoint
ment of successor to Col. MORRISON
as Chairman of the Ways aud Means
Committee will soon take place. The
organization of the next Congress and
the formation of its policy may begin
as soon as this session ends.
The persistency with which certain
newspaper correspondents have tried
to make President Cleveland danger
ously sick man is as ludicrous as are
the attempts of the same memorable
pen drivers to break mp Mr.. CleveIand's
Cabinet. Rumors about changes in
the Cabinet that begun with the resig-
nation of Secretary Manning, follow
with the retirement of Secretary Bay
ard, and end with the displacement of
Acknowledgement Garland, find their
way t Washington from a distance
every two or three weeks, and are
as often denied. The latest gossip
makes Ex-Governor Hoadiy, of Ohio,
the successor Of both Messrs. Manning
and Garland.
Congress goes on adding TO the
II 900 bills already on the calendar,
piling up a new batch every week, just
as il its life were going to last forever
A large number of bills have been in
troduced providing for agricultural
experiment stations in the different
States, and although nothing has vet
been done for them, bills of the same
kind continue to be presented.
Mr.. Real, Of New Y ork, who is Pres
ident of the American Dairy Assooia-
ton, is here for the purpose of pro-
noting agricultural interests in Con
gress. Three pending measures that
the Association is most anxious to
have passed are the Department of
Agriculture bill, the Animal Industry
bill, and the bill for Agricultural En-
pertinent Stations. Mr.. Real holds
that the Oleomargarine bill has already
proved itself to be the most useful
piece of legis!atinn ever enacted by
Congress in the interests of agriculture
1t is stated that the law has so far
saved over a 81 100000 to the dairy
farmers of New York State alone.
The Senate is wrestling with the In-
terstate Commerce bill now, and it is
said Senator EVarts intends opposing
it on the ground chat it violates, 10
some way, the Treaty Of Washington.
Recently, in group Of Senators,
which was discussing their associates
in the Upper House, it was asked why
the able Vim. M. Evarts had made such
little impression in the Senate. lie
had expressed no positive opinion on
any important question since he en-
tered it. "Ah, Mr.. Evarts has been
engaged all his life in cases where he |
was paid by a retainer to form his
opinion on one side Or the other" was
The reply 'There is nothing of that
kind in the Senate and consequently |
be is not at home there"
THE following are the appointments
or the Opelousas District by the Lou
siana Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, which recently
onHened at Ruston, La: IS. Keener,
residing elderi 0reloasas, ]. B. Jack
on WASHINGTON. i. B. Porter: Rayne